I have searched the forums and find many entries on video issues but no real solutions. I am loading MP4 videos to a directory under albums and I have created the .htaccess file as listed in other post. I have class_video and flowplayer3 plugins turned on. I have tried 3 separate video converters to work the files and still no go. I can play the videos fine on my desktop but not in Zenphoto. My site is www.littlehaven.com/ravens it is a junior league football team site that I am attempting to post for them.
1.Is there some other coding that is required?
2. Can someone make a step by step guide to assist in this as I see many post and notice that many users have given up and switched due to this issue.
3. The error that I see is 200. Stream not found. NetStream.Play,StreamNotFound,clip:[Clip]'/ravens/albums/practices/DSCF3726.MP4'

Any and all assistance appreciated.

Ron R

You did not say what put in or where you put the .htaccess file, but if it was to prevent access to your album folders, then it was successful! Unfortunately, video players need to be able to load up the video file in order to play it. So if you prevent that, it won't play.

Also note that these players only support what Flash supports. YOu have to make sure that the videos are encoded with the standard codecs and settings. See flowplayer.org for more info.

The htaccess file is as follows and is in all folders under albums.

SetOutputFilter DEFLATE
SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI .avi$ no-gzip dont-vary
SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI .mov$ no-gzip dont-vary
SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI .mp3$ no-gzip dont-vary
SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI .mp4$ no-gzip dont-vary
SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI .flv$ no-gzip dont-vary

I don;t think that will block the files. The files play fine on my desktop using flowplayer3 so I believe that the videos are in the correct format. Any other ideas, or am I not understanding you correctly. Thanks for answering I appreciate all suggestions.

Well, did you try to comment these parts out? If it then works you what it is. I am not htaccess versed enough to know what this might cause (btw Zenphoto does not support .avi at all).

Once I remove the htaccess file I have sound but no video, just a black screen.

I took the freedom to download one of the movies to try locally on the current trunk. I could not play them with Flowplayer either. No image. So I am guessing that it is a Flowplayer issue, probably it does not like something. Might be the 3ivx codec apparently used, don't know. Sorry

You were correct. Thank You Thank You... The 3ivx codec is not supported. Once converted it all works fine. Thanks agsain
Ron